Copy damaged harddisk to a file for recovery

To duplicate an entire disk at disk0 (usually the internal) to another disk (disk1) using 64k block sizes and replacing bad block data with zeros:

sudo dd bs=131072 if=/dev/rdisk0 of=/diskcopy conv=noerror,sync

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